"The Night of the Iguana The Night of the Iguana is a stage play written by American author Tennessee Williams, based on his 1948 short story. First staged as a one-act play in 1959, Williams developed it into a full-length play over the next two years, staging two different versions in 1959 and 1960, before arriving at the three-act version of the text which premiered on Broadway in 1961. Two film adaptations have been made, including the Academy Award-winning 1964 film directed by John Huston and starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. The other is a 2000 Croatian"
"the MI Group Playhouse. In 1991, the Playhouse became home to the Peter Hall Company, and a number of critically and commercially successful plays were performed there, including Tennessee Williams' ""The Rose Tattoo"" (1991), starring Julie Walters and Moliere's ""Tartuffe"" (1991), starring Paul Eddington and Felicity Kendal. Around this time the basement bar area of the theatre was converted into a private restaurant, Shaws, but the enterprise was unsuccessful and the space was later converted back into a bar/cafe. In 1992, Archer sold the Playhouse to the writer and impresario Ray Cooney for just over £2 million. That year Cooney"
"Edward Rose Edward Rose (7 August 1849 – 31 December 1904) was an English playwright, best known for his adaptations of novels for the stage, mainly ""The Prisoner of Zenda"". He was also the theatre critic for ""The Sunday Times"". Edward Rose was born in Swaffham, Norfolk, on 7 August 1849, son of Caleb Rose, a physician, and his first wife, Isabella Morse. He attended Islington Proprietary School and Ipswich Grammar School. He worked in the solicitors firm Cobbold and Yarrington (in Ipswich) for four years, from 1868 to 1872. In 1872 he moved to London. He began writing plays"
"members of the 1951 Broadway play included Martin Balsam and Vivian Nathan. The play was revived in 1966, again starring Maureen Stapleton, with Maria Tucci replacing Phyllis Love in the role of Rose Delle Rose. Tucci was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance. On May 12, 1957, the Pike Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, staged ""The Rose Tattoo"" with Anna Manahan as the lead and the Irish scenic artist Reginald Gray as the set designer. After a short run the theatre was invaded by the Irish police and director Alan Simpson was"
"performances at the Circle in the Square Theatre with casting by Stuart Howard and Amy Schecter under the direction of Robert Falls. Scenic design by Santo Loquasto, costume designed by Catherine Zuber, lighting design by Kenneth Posner, sound design by John Kilgore, hair and make-up design by Claus Lulla, wig design by John Aitchison, general manager Don Roe, management consultant Gordon G. Forbes, stage manager Peggy Peterson, assistant stage manager Wm. Hare, and dialect coach K.C. Ligon. New Directions Publishing reissued the play in 2010 with a new introduction by playwright John Patrick Shanley. ""Main article"": ""The Rose Tattoo (film)"""
"The Rose and the Rime Rose and the Rime is a play written and directed by Nathan Allen, originally workshopped and performed at Hope College in 2006. ""Rose and the Rime"" is a fantasy play written by the House Theatre of Chicago's creative team Nathan Allen, Chris Mathews, and Jake Minton in 2006. The play has a run time of about 85 minutes. The creation of ""Rose and the Rime"" followed the House Theatre's success with their original play ""Sparrow"" in the previous season. ""Rose and the Rime"" balances a fantastical plot with the human themes of greed, power, birth"
"made his Broadway debut and he won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance alongside Maureen Stapleton in the Tennessee Williams play ""The Rose Tattoo"". His other theater credits include ""Mister Roberts"", ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"", ""Camino Real"", ""Major Barbara"" (in which director Charles Laughton discouraged Wallach's established method acting style), ""Luv"", and ""Staircase"", co-starring Milo O'Shea, which was a serious depiction of an aging homosexual couple. He also played a role in a tour of ""Antony and Cleopatra,"" produced by the actress Katharine Cornell in 1946. He exposed Americans to the work of playwright Eugène Ionesco"
"such as ""The Rose Tattoo"" and ""Master Class"". As a child, she appeared on Art Linkletter's ""Kids Say the Darndest Things"". She won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award's Best Actress award for her role in the Tennessee Williams play ""The Rose Tattoo"" and four Drama-Logue Awards for ""Sweet Bird of Youth"" (1980), ""Lady House Blues"" (1981), ""Vieux Carré"" (1983) and ""Tamara"" (1985). Kondazian met Williams at a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle luncheon honoring him, and Williams reportedly allowed Kondazian to produce any of his plays. She was also nominated for an Ovation Best Actress Award in ""Master"
"The Nightingale and the Rose (opera) The Nightingale and the Rose (Russian: ""Соловей и роза"" – ""Solovey i roza"") is a chamber opera in one act (five scenes) by Russian composer Elena Firsova (Op. 46, 1990–1991) written to her own English libretto after Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name together with poetry by Christina Rossetti. The opera was written at the request of Paul Esterházy, the director of the Ulm Theatre in Germany. Firsova created the libretto combining the text from Oscar Wilde's fairy-tale, taken from the collection ""The Happy Prince and Other Stories"" (1888), with four poems by"
"Edward Rose died on 31 December 1904 at the age of 55. He is sometimes confused or conflated with Edward Everett Rose (1862–1939), a Canadian-born American dramatist also known for dramatizing novels, notably ""Richard Carvel"" and the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington. Edward Rose Edward Rose (7 August 1849 – 31 December 1904) was an English playwright, best known for his adaptations of novels for the stage, mainly ""The Prisoner of Zenda"". He was also the theatre critic for ""The Sunday Times"". Edward Rose was born in Swaffham, Norfolk, on 7 August 1849, son of Caleb Rose, a physician, and"
"of the 1950s include:""Guys and Dolls"", ""Wonderful Town"", ""Kismet"", ""The Pajama Game"", ""Fanny"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Silk Stockings"", ""Damn Yankees"", ""Bells Are Ringing"", ""Candide"", ""The Most Happy Fella"", ""The Music Man"", and ""West Side Story"" among others. During the 1950s, some important and award-winning dramas included: ""The Rose Tattoo"" by Tennessee Williams, ""The Crucible"" by Arthur Miller, ""Picnic"" by William Inge, ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" adapted from the novel by Vern Sneider by John Patrick, ""The Desperate Hours"" by Joseph Hayes, ""The Diary of Anne Frank"" adapted from the book by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, ""Bus Stop"" by"
"The Subject Was Roses The Subject Was Roses is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1964 play written by Frank D. Gilroy, who also adapted the work in 1968 for a film with the same title. The play premiered on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on May 25, 1964, starring Jack Albertson, Irene Dailey, replaced by Martha Scott for the national tour; and Martin Sheen, and directed by Ulu Grosbard. A major critical and commercial success, the play ran 832 performances and was nominated for five Tony Awards, winning two for Best Play and Best Featured Actor (Albertson). For his work in the"
"Edward Everett Rose Edward Everett Rose (February 11, 1862 - April 2, 1939) was an American playwright. He adapted a number of popular novels into plays, including ""Janice Meredith"", ""Richard Carvel"", ""David Harum"", ""Eben Holden"", ""The Battle of the Strong"", ""Alice of Old Vincennes"", and ""The Rosary"". Rose was born in Stanstead, Quebec, and graduated from Chauncy Hall School in Boston in 1881, and studied for two years at Harvard University. He died in Fremont, Wisconsin on April 2, 1939, survived by his wife, actress Dorothy Stanton and his daughter Ruth Rose, who became an actress and screenwriter. Two of"
"Philip Rose (theatrical producer) Philip Rose (July 4, 1921 – May 31, 2011) was a Broadway theatrical producer of such productions as ""A Raisin in the Sun"", ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", ""Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?"", ""Purlie"", and ""Shenandoah"". His work was particularly notable for its social insight and distinctive social conscience. Philip Rose was born Philip Rosenberg on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, to Russian Jewish parents. As a young man, he earned money singing at weddings and funerals and later worked briefly as a bill collector. His family moved to Washington, D.C. during the Great"
"known also for his lyrical, acoustic chamber scores, particularly for his work on the plays of Tennessee Williams. Williams plays he has scored include ""The Glass Menagerie"", ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Sweet Bird of Youth"", ""The Night of the Iguana"", ""Camino Real"", ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", ""Summer and Smoke"", ""A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur"", ""The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore"" and ""Red Devil Battery Sign"". In 2009 Gromada began to write the score for a new music theatre piece based on Michael Pollan's best-selling book, The Botany of Desire, which had a first workshop in Berkeley"
"The Rose of Persia The Rose of Persia; ""or, The Story-Teller and the Slave"", is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 29 November 1899, closing on 28 June 1900 after a profitable run of 211 performances. The opera then toured, had a brief run in America and played elsewhere throughout the English-speaking world. The original cast included Savoy Theatre regulars Ellen Beach Yaw, Rosina Brandram, Emmie Owen, Louie Pounds, Isabel Jay, Walter Passmore, Henry Lytton and Robert Evett. Later, Decima Moore joined the cast"
"The White Rose (play) The White Rose was written by Lillian Garrett-Groag and premiered in 1991 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Calif. The play chronicles the arrest, interrogation and eventual execution of a group of University of Munich students who protested the Nazi regime at the height of World War II. The students assigned to themselves the name White Rose. The play has roles for seven males and one female. The strongest roles belong to Robert Mohr, the head of the Munich Gestapo, and Sophie Scholl, one of the students. Mohr, moved by Scholl's passion (and mindful"
"Dennis Fitzgerald as Ross. A new production directed by Ian Rickson and starring Damian Lewis, Sophie Okonedo, Jason Hughes and Archie Madekwe opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End, in 2017. The play was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won that year by ""Anna in the Tropics""). The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a full-length play written in 2000 by Edward Albee which opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and"
"Mary Rose (play) Mary Rose is a play by J. M. Barrie, who is best known for ""Peter Pan"". It was first produced in April 1920 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, with incidental music specially composed by Norman O'Neill. The play was produced in New York that year. Later it received revivals in New York in 2007 and in London in 2012. This is the fictional story of Mary Rose, a girl who vanishes twice. As a child, Mary Rose was taken by her father to a remote Scottish island. While she is briefly out of her father's sight, Mary"
"York/ Robert Slotover - Allied Artists U.K. Lillian Garrett-Groag Lillian Groag (born Liliana C. Groag) is an American playwright, theater director, and actor. Her plays include ""The Ladies of the Camellias"", ""The Magic Fire"", and ""The White Rose"". Lillian Groag was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a Viennese father and an Italian mother. Her father had fled to Argentina in 1938 when Austria joined Nazi Germany. When Lillian was only 7 years old her family fled from Argentina to Montevideo, Uruguay, but this time they were fleeing from the military dictatorship. Her father would die 7 years later in"
"Massimo Venturiello Massimo Venturiello (born 4 August 1957) is an Italian stage, film and television actor. Born in Roccadaspide, Province of Salerno, in 1982 Venturiello graduated at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of dramatic Arts in Rome and the same year he made his stage debut in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Titus Andronicus"" directed by Gabriele Lavia. From then, he started an intense theatrical activity, which includes experimental and avant-garde works and a long collaboration with the director Giampiero Solari. Particularly, Venturiello was critically acclaimed for his performances in ""The Rose Tattoo"", alongside Valeria Moriconi, and in ""Masaniello"" directed by"
"Tony Award for her role in Tennessee Williams' ""The Rose Tattoo"" in 1951. (Magnani's English improved, however, and she was able to play the role in the film version, winning an Oscar.) Stapleton played in other Williams' productions, including ""Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton"" and ""Orpheus Descending"" (and its film adaptation, ""The Fugitive Kind"", co-starring her friend Marlon Brando), as well as Lillian Hellman's ""Toys in the Attic"". She won a second Tony Award for Neil Simon's ""The Gingerbread Lady"", which was written especially for her, in 1971. Later Broadway roles included ""Birdie"" in ""The Little Foxes"" opposite Elizabeth Taylor"
"Anna Magnani Anna Magnani (; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in ""The Rose Tattoo"". Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled. She was referred to as ""La Lupa,"" the ""perennial toast of Rome"" and a ""living she-wolf symbol"" of the"
"Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and ""The Red Shoes"", as well as the libretto for the musical ""The Color Purple"" and the book for the musical ""The Bridges of Madison County"". She is co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School. Norman was born"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"plays: ""The Pretty Trap"" (1944) for ""The Glass Menagerie"", ""Interior: Panic"" (1946) for ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Kingdom of Earth"" (1967) for ""The Seven Descents of Myrtle"", ""I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays"" (1973) for ""Vieux Carré"", and ""Some Problems for the Moose Lodge"" (1980) for ""A House Not Meant to Stand"". The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays is a collection of 15 plays, seven of them previously unpublished, by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Published by New Directions in New York City in 2011, Williams' scholar Thomas Keith edited"
"The Woolgatherer The Woolgatherer is a play by William Mastrosimone. It originally premiered at the Theatre at Rutgers University in 1979. It was printed in 1981. The play is William Mastrosimone's first play. It has been produced a number of times and has won awards, including the L.A. Drama Critics Award in 1982. It is a two-act play, set entirely in a small apartment in South Philadelphia. It centers around Rose and Cliff, two neurotic people searching for love. Rose is a nervous and flighty woman who is haunted by the past and obsessed with destruction; due to her hemophilia,"
"Robert Turney Robert Morgan Turney (1900–1972) was an American playwright who wrote two plays produced on Broadway: ""Daughters of Atreus"" and ""The Secret Room"". He was also an actor with the New York Repertory Company. Robert Turney was born in 1900 to James and Rowena Turney in Nashville, Tennessee. His family later moved to Missouri and then to New Jersey. Robert Turney studied drama at Columbia University and was a member of the Philolexian Society. He won several Philolexian prizes for his short stories and poems and acted in student dramatic productions. He also studied drama at the University of"
"La púrpura de la rosa La púrpura de la rosa (""The Blood of the Rose"") is an opera in one act, composed by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco to a Spanish libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, the last great writer of the Spanish Golden Age. It is the first known opera to be composed and performed in the Americas and is Torrejón y Velasco's only surviving opera. ""La púrpura de la rosa"" was first performed in Lima in 1701 to celebrate the 18th birthday of Philip V and the first anniversary of his succession to the Spanish throne."
"the Tennessee Williams play ""The Rose Tattoo"". Directed by Peter Cotes, it starred John Slater (Jacko), Joan Miller (Cotes' wife), Andrée Melly and Lloyd Reckord. ""After a leisurely start,"" noted ""The Stage"", reviewing the Bournemouth premiere, ""the play builds up into a passionate, almost violent piece of theatre."" When the play arrived in the West End, the same paper called it ""a sincere, simple, straightforward play"" and (referring to its racial theme) ""quite an absorbing preliminary skirmish."" In ""Theatre World"", Frances Stephens dubbed the play ""a worthy effort by Ted Willis to deal with the current social problem created in"
"The Time of the Cuckoo The Time of the Cuckoo is a play by Arthur Laurents. It focuses on the bittersweet romance between Leona Samish, a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe, and Renato Di Rossi, a shopkeeper she meets in Venice. Di Rossi, trapped in a loveless marriage, relentlessly pursues Leona, who initially is shocked by the thought of an illicit affair but eventually succumbs to the Italian's charms. The Broadway production was directed by Harold Clurman. The play opened at the Empire Theater on October 15, 1952 and closed on May 30, 1953 after 263 performances. The"
"Lillian Garrett-Groag Lillian Groag (born Liliana C. Groag) is an American playwright, theater director, and actor. Her plays include ""The Ladies of the Camellias"", ""The Magic Fire"", and ""The White Rose"". Lillian Groag was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a Viennese father and an Italian mother. Her father had fled to Argentina in 1938 when Austria joined Nazi Germany. When Lillian was only 7 years old her family fled from Argentina to Montevideo, Uruguay, but this time they were fleeing from the military dictatorship. Her father would die 7 years later in Uruguay. Lillian was schooled in Catholic boarding"
"scenic design by Julia Noulin-Mérat. The Notebook of Trigorin The Notebook of Trigorin is a play by American playwright Tennessee Williams, adapted from Anton Chekhov's drama ""The Seagull"" (1895). Williams based his adaptation primarily on Ann Dunnigan's 1960 translation. The play was first produced in 1981 by the Vancouver Playhouse in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1980, Williams' play ""The Red Devil Battery Sign"" had been given a new production at the Playhouse by artistic director Roger Hodgman while Williams was Writer in Residence at the University of British Columbia. Invited to return with a new play, Williams confessed his desire"